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Sky with the Four Suns: Manchester Collective
Feb 08 2026
19:00
The Hall, Aviva Studios
Manchester, UK
Cost: £25
Tickets
ABOUT THIS EVENT

Enter a realm flooded with light and sound with music by Arvo Pärt, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell, Mica Levi, Jasmine Morris and John Luther Adams

The Alaskan wilderness and the Arctic sky is where night and day steadily unfold with a special kind of magic. These horizons stretch far and wide across the nature-infused music of John Luther Adams. His ‘Canticles of the Sky’ for string quartet is stark, bright and expansive. It takes inspiration from sunbeams that hit ice crystals and refract, forming vivid halos and sundogs. To hear it live is to feel the steady, creeping warmth of a frosty day…

On our way to these distant soundscapes, we bask in the radiant purity of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Summa’ and briefly leave Earth behind for alien terrains. Experimental British musician and composer Mica Levi is best known for their disconcerting scores for films like Under the Skin and The Zone of Interest. In a new commission for the Collective, Jasmine Morris manipulates time with her slow-crawling textures and otherworldly sounds.

Join us and ascend to the highest heights.



THE VENUE

The Hall, Aviva Studios
Water Street
Manchester, M3 4JQ
UK


Phone: +44 333 322 8679
Website: https://factoryinternational.org/


His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann
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